Black Lives Matter protesters, many of whom participated in the March on Washington, shut down major highways across the nation’s capital city Friday night. Videos taken of protesters showed them harassing motorists and police.
What do the videos show?
One disturbing video showed protesters surround a police vehicle and seemingly try and rip that police officer from the vehicle. The video shows protesters attempt to open the vehicle door as the officer inside fights back.
A loud “pop” is then heard, though it was not clear where the sound came from or what made the sound.
(Content Warning: The following video contains strong language):
#DCProteststh – crowd just surrounded this law enforcement vehicle and tried to open its doors & attack, the office… https://t.co/8bpfpM9wFF
— Kitty Shackleford (@Kitty Shackleford)1598654173.0
Another video showed protesters harass a motorist who had become obviously distressed by the protesters and their blocking of the roadway.
“Ha ha, he’s scared as f***,” one of the protesters mocked.
“You have to go home and I don’t give a f***” another protester said. “I don’t give a f***.”
(Content Warning: The following video contains strong language):
Roads in Washington DC are being blocked by Black Lives Matter activists and the drivers are having their lives thr… https://t.co/T1GkAk230e
— Ian Miles Cheong (@Ian Miles Cheong)1598660603.0
What’s the background?
People from across the nation gathered in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday for the 57th March on Washington, commemorating the 1963 March on Washington during which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famed “I Have A Dream” speech.
According to the Washington Post, hundreds of demonstrators stayed in the city after festivities for the March on Washington had ended. Protesters temporarily blocked several major roadways, including entrances and exits into the city.
One protester told the Post their goal was to “choke the city.”
From the Post:
Most of the protesters at Ninth Street wore all black, and many wore goggles and helmets on their heads. One person carried a bat, and another man wore what appeared to be a bulletproof vest.
Blocking highways is a protest tactic regularly used by Black Lives Matter protesters.
Benjamin Jealous, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the Wall Street Journal that blocking highways is used by demonstrators “who feel like they have no other way to get their community and the world to stop and take notice of what’s happened.”
Unfortunately, though, blocking roadways can have deadly consequences.
In fact, just last month, a protester was struck and killed on a Seattle highway.
What has happened to law and order ? Has the pandemic virus turned these people into idiots? If the police can’t control them… call in the military… BLM has terrorized people long enough… time to fight back and take the fight to them … as an American citizen I have the right to protect my life and family with any means available to me. Do these people work? White Black Purple people who accost me or my family… know that I will fight back and urge every American to do the same… time to take back our Country… it’s not a perfect Country but it’s my Country has been for 74 years. People get ready… our political parties have failed US … or we would not be seeing this crap Wake up Capital Hill !!! Your Country needs you people to do something about this anarchy… do nothing now … lose elections in November… do nothing now watch people get hurt in their cars on the streets. Then watch the poop hit the fan as Americans fight back.
It’s past time to start completely eliminating these thugs, that is all they are.
Let’s get the battle lines drawn and get to work. This is totally unacceptable. On any normal day individuals are arrested and jailed for acts just like this. The individual that wants to resist with violence gets to go see and abide within☁️ Heaven☁️ or 🔥HELL🔥. That is God’s decisions as he is the only one that does ALL of our FINAL JUDGEMENT.
They seem to think this is the only way, it is for one of those Options, can’t have both.
LEO and Citizens are allowed to defend their own safeguarding and as such, the one that opened that door should’ve gotten lead poisoning of the brain 🧠 box.
This is beyond Tolerance, time to fertilize the 🌹 🥀 of War. They are inciting war behaviors so give them a taste of War.
stop the bs, it is time to take out the trash.. fight back and fight back “hard”…. use overwhelming force and use it now, none of these rioters are contributing members of our society and eliminating them will be good for all americans
I fully support and encourage forceful elimination of these rioters and all antifa members and all blm organizers…. and the arrest of many democratic politicians and socialists…. pelosi should be treated like a traitor and removed from “freedom” (thinking of Guantanamo)
if they block the roads trying to stop you, see how many of them you can take out before you are stopped, THEN start firing and see how fast they run to mommy
Exactly!!! Chicanos for Trump!!
that’s why we have cattle guards on our trucks most have 4x4s and at least one or two guns with us
Trust me
You threaten me or mine and I feel like my well being and or way of life is in jeopardy
since I’m disabled and am unable to fight or run you will be shot no questions asked
I think we need to remove DA’s like the POS in Wisconsin send it out to confront these dirt bags see the shit running down his/her legs
He’d have been fully justified in 1. Firing into the crowd and 2. Driving full speed ahead and then in reverse, just to make sure.
We are “free Americans” and while we are still “free Americans” we need to stand together and put a stop to all of this nonsense. I am prepared and will do anything and everything to protect my family and myself , and if that were to mean driving through a crowd to protect lives than I am willing to and will do so. President Trump has wanted to send in federal agents and has sent in the military in a few places to protect the innocent but unfortunately this has been met with opposition from the corrupt democratic governors and mayors that have been elected into office while we sat on our hands and made excuses for not voting for someone that would have done what has needed to be done in office. Someone stated that Nancy Pelosi needs to be charged with treason , I completely agree with that and then hang her along with all of the other corrupt politicians in office. And yes I say corrupt politicians , because there are corrupt politicians that are democrat as well as some that are republican. You want a better America than vote Trump this coming November or the USA will become something that it has never been before and when if that happens then it will be too late to wish that things were as good as they use to be . I know President Trump is not perfect but he’s a whole heck of a lot better than the other choice.
This is pretty much psychotic fanatical behavior. One guy saying no justice no peace, we’ll there hasn’t been enough time for a trial, so wait MFr until justice can do it’s job! They are all a bunch of ignorant people acting like they are relevant. They are not! They are what is wrong with our society. We’ve had the first black president, doesn’t happen in a systemically racist country. He worked hard to get there. These assholes are nothing more that street punks, and I’m sick of listening to them whine that they are so mistreated! Stop fighting cops, go to school instead of trying to be the next P Diddy, or whoever, learn to speak, learn manners, get some self respect! Cuz right now, I have 0 for these stupid people. Defund BLM, Antifa, any other fucking socialist group!